DXCC(1)

📦 in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 NAME 💖

dxcc — the ham radio callsign DXCC lookup utility, and yes she's that girl 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dxcc [-g] [-m MYPREFIX] [CALLSIGN]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so bestie, listen. dxcc figures out the ARRL DXCC entity of a ham radio callsign 🦋 and it does it based on the cty.dat country file by Jim Reisert, AD1C (http://country-files.com/). like. the way it just knows? iconic.

If a matching country or entity is found, it prints the entity name, the continent, the latitude/longitude and other info. all of it. she's thorough 💅

When you invoke it with the command line option -g, you get a Perl/Tk GUI ✨ with an additional world map showing the location of the DXCC. map reveal moment fr fr 🌍

And if you use the line option -m [MYPREFIX], then the distance and bearing to CALLSIGN get calculated and displayed. so you can be like "how far even IS that" and she'll tell you 📐💖

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /usr/(local/)share/dxcc/cty.dat — the optional country file. ngl a current version of AD1C's country file is already included in dxcc itself, so this one's optional-optional 🫶
  • /usr/(local/)share/dxcc/earth.gif — the Earth picture for the GUI. yes she has a whole picture of the earth just vibing in there 🌎💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK <mail@fkurz.net> — http://fkurz.net/ham/dxcc.html

💀 quick vibe check before you go: this page is the Linux one, dated DECEMBER 2007, and it's DXCC(1) from the User Manuals. slay, periodt. 💅✨🌸
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